Monthly Archives: December 2007
AMD Tries to Learn Its Lessons
In the months leading up to the launch of Advanced Micro Devices' quad-core Opteron processor, code-named Barcelona, company executives continually harped on its design...
Accenture Files Patent Suit Against Guidewire
NEW YORK (Reuters)—Accenture Ltd said on Tuesday it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Guidewire Software Inc over an insurance claims management technology.Accenture said...
HP Partner Enhancements Focus on Storage, Government – 2
Despite having no channel chief, Hewlett-Packard has soldiered on with more changes to its PartnerOne channel program.Stacey Wueste Davis, vice president of Solution Partners...
The Most Important Search and Collaboration Stories of 2007
The Most Important Search and Collaboration Stories of 2007
Viacom sued YouTube for $1 billion, alleging mass copyright infringement. The suit came months after Google...
Another Day, Another GPL Win
During the last several months, the Software Freedom Law Center has gone on the warpath to defend the GPL. On Dec. 17, the SFLC...
Paul Allen to Bid in Wireless Auction
WASHINGTON (Reuters)—A venture led by Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen has applied to bid in an upcoming U.S. auction of coveted wireless airwaves, according...
Dell Announces Ubuntu 7.10 PCs with DVD Playback
Dell has told DesktopLinux.com that it will be announcing Dec. 19 that it will be releasing PCs with Ubuntu 7.10 (aka Gutsy Gibbon) as...
The Most Important Virtualization and Storage Stories of 2007
The Most Important Virtualization and Storage Stories of 2007
VMware CEO Diane Greene explained to a capacity house at VMworld “how virtualization became its own...
Worm Squirms Through Google’s Orkut
A fast moving worm is squirming though Google's Orkut social network, adding hundreds of thousands of users to an Orkut community created by a...
Software Sales Boost Oracle
BOSTON (Reuters)—Oracle Corp said on Wednesday that quarterly profit rose 35 percent as new software sales soared, beating expectations at a time when investors...